Since 1991 Gerard Hartmann has worked as a physical therapist with many of the world’s greatest athletes, including Sonia O’Sullivan, Kelly Holmes and Paula Radcliffe, as well as with a number of Irish rugby, athletic and GAA stars.

Gerard Hartmann and Hartmann-International Sports Injury Clinic have had a relationship with elite Kenyan athletes that spans two decades. The list of Kenyan Olympic medallists, world record holders and world champions who have been treated, coached, rehabilitated and mentored back to winning performances on the world athletics stage by Gerard Hartmann reads like a roll of honour.

Gerard Hartmann recently took his famed ability as a physical therapist to the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa. Here, his colleague Ger Keane tells the story of a trip that involved Paula Radcliffe, Tirunesh Dibaba and, of course, Haile Gebrselassie. 2009

First published in Irish Runner magazine Before the running revolution of the 1970's, stress fractures had a not so popular association within the military, where 'march fractures', as they were termed, occurred most commonly in new army recruits recently introduced to marching.

For most of us the odds are a million to one against encountering, during our daily ten-miler, one of the great Kenyans or Ethiopians or Moroccans. But for those fortunate enough to live in or near Limerick and run regularly on the Shannon's leafy banks the same odds shorten dramatically.

Published in Athletics Weekly Magazine UK 1999 For injured world athletics stars all roads lead to Gerard Hartmann, the Irish physical therapist, a man with a golden touch. When elite athletes are struck down by injury he is the one they all want to see. What is the magical formula of the man they all put their faith in? JASON HENDERSON travelled to his clinic, in Limerick, Ireland, to find out.